Sagar urges India, Pak to find lasting solution to all issues

Srinagar, Dec 16: Asserting that the dialogue is the only medium for solving issues, the Minister for Rural Development, Ali Muhammad Sagar said that India and Pakistan should work for finding a lasting solution to all their issues.The Minister was speaking at an awareness camp organized by the Department of Rural Development at Bomia, Sopore in Baramulla district for formally launching the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan in Kashmir division.MLA Sopore, Muhammad Ashraf Ganai, Director Rural Development Kashmir, Mir Altaf Ahmad, Sub Divisional Magistrate Sopore, Dr Hanief Balkhi and other senior officers were present on the occasion.Sagar said that the Separatist leadership should understand the fact that various vexed issues have been solved through the medium of dialogue and they should come forward for working out a lasting solution which would usher a new dawn of peace and prosperity in the State. "We have witnessed turbulent times and cult of violence has given nothing but death and destruction," he said.The Minister, according to a statment, said that it was due to the efforts of the Government that the peace has been sustained in the State and people should understand that the peace and development are complimentary to each other.

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